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Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

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Are you a carer? Or do you work with a carer, or know someone who is one? This free course, Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role, is designed to give an insight into the demands, both physically and mentally, of the caring role and look at how taking part in physical activity can offer benefits to the health and wellbeing of carers.Given the demands of the caring role, the course also looks at possible ways to start incorporating physical activity into everyday life and reflects upon a number of case studies. By the end of the course you will have gained knowledge about strategies that will help you to understand how to support and improve the wellbeing of either yourself or a carer you know.TranscriptThis course is endorsed by Carers Trust.

Syllabus

  • Introduction and overview
  • Introduction and overview
  • Moving around the course
  • What is a badged course?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Session1Session 1: Understanding the demands of the caring role
  • Introduction
  • 1 Carers and the demand for care
  • 2 The role of the carer
  • 3 Who are the carers?
  • 3.1 Introducing our case studies
  • 4 The physical demands of the caring role
  • 4.1 The impact of caring on physical health
  • 5 The psychological and emotional demands of the caring role
  • 5.1 Challenges of the caring role
  • 6 Implications of the caring role on mental health
  • 7 Session 1 quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 1
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Session2Session 2: Using physical activity to support the caring role
  • Introduction
  • 1 Why should you be physically active?
  • 2 The benefits of physical activity to physical and mental health
  • 2.1 How much physical activity do you need?
  • 3 Physical activity in the caring role
  • 4 How to become a physically active carer
  • 4.1 Martin’s story
  • 5 Physical activity as respite
  • 6 Being physically active with a care recipient
  • 7 End-of-course quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 2
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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    it's wonderful, content good and very legible to read, simply made easy. Yet to see the certificate hope it is good and standard.

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